Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Faint; feeble; languid; exhausted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Feeble; languid.
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- adjective
feeble ;languid ; inclined tofaint
Etymologies
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Examples
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Right up until I went all woozy and fainty and found myself at work, head between my knees, crying.
Archive 2007-07-01 kittenpie 2007
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Right up until I went all woozy and fainty and found myself at work, head between my knees, crying.
Schrodinger's Mom kittenpie 2007
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This week I've gone back to my usual diet of high carbs and chocolate, and I've been feeling really fainty.
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I get sick if I don't eat every three hours and I feel fainty multiple times a day.
Pregnancy. Sucks. 2008
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Even in my state of fainty delirium I noticed that the first book had been renamed "and the Sorcerer's Stone" instead of "and the Philosopher's Stone" for the US readership.
Half moon. 2005
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Even in my state of fainty delirium I noticed that the first book had been renamed "and the Sorcerer's Stone" instead of "and the Philosopher's Stone" for the US readership.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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Often, I will emerge feeling slightly blanched, a little bit red, and mostly a bit fainty.
Archive 2004-11-01 2004
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Often, I will emerge feeling slightly blanched, a little bit red, and mostly a bit fainty.
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And then even if I have eaten, I go to do something like clean my room and I feel like I do when I get low blood sugar, you know, all weak and shakey and fainty.
18th May '03 2003
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Thank you so much Laura-Ann for your email and your concern about Neil * hugs* I am slightly less worried now, well, I still think his company sucks, but I am slightly less worried about his dizzy fainty episodes, because actually I think he had a virus.
sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2002
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